Tobacco Products Liability Project
[Memorandum on the Future of the Tobacco Institute]
Abstract
Industry should adopt a new strategy in presenting its views. The Tobacco Institute has drawn much negative attention with its strident tone. The low key model of the liquor industry should be considered. Funding for a group of scientists can be considered as an alternative to the TI. Such group may have the right political environment if President Reagan is re-elected.
User-Contributed Notes
- Industry Strategy Industry Response Smoking and Health Litigation Public Relations Product liability Tobacco Industry Scientist
Fields
- Recipient
- Hughes, Ivor Wallace, Dr. (CEO Brown & Williamson, TI Executive Committee)Ivor Wallace Hughes was The Chief Executive Officer of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company in 1983, also served on the Tobacco Institute Executive Committee in 1983 and was CTR Director 1/28/83.
- Type
- Memorandum
- Author
- Pepples, Ernest, J.D. (BW General Counsel and Sr. VP)
- Named Organization
- Tobacco Institute (Industry Trade Association)The purpose of the Institute was to defeat legislation unfavorable to the industry, put a positive spin on the tobacco industry, bolster the industry's credibility with legislators and the public, and help maintain the controversy over "the primary issue" (the health issue).
- *Council for Tobacco Research-- U.S.A. Inc. CTR (Formerly Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC))
Created and funded by the tobacco industry to award grants to study of the link between smoking and disease. Part of a four decade effort to cast doubt on the links between smoking and disease.- *Health and Human Services (HHS) (use United States Department of Health and Hum (US)
- *Council for Tobacco Research-- U.S.A. Inc. CTR (Formerly Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC))
- Named Person
- Kornegay, Horace R. (TI President and Exec. Director)VP Leaf Ops (RJR), TI Chairman (1985)
- Arthur Godfrey (Commercial)
- Reagan, Ronald, President (Two-term U.S. President (1981-1989))
- Brandt, Edward N, Jr., M.D. (Asst. Secretary for Health, U.S. Dept. of Health)
- Arthur Godfrey (Commercial)
- Date Loaded
- 08 Jan 2003
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asked or my comment, on Horace
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Some alte~nattve needs to be put in place to pick up TI's
~ole. It cannot be CTR. CTR pc=forms a dirre~ent and ve=y
essential function. Similarly, the six companies
inherently lncapaOle of a unified ~esponse. Also, any
individual company .111 be ?aced'.lth product llaoll£ty
p~oblems in t~ylng to issue ro,¢cerul, effective communications
on smoking and healt~ ~ues~lons.
Pe=haps the'ans.e=, as you mentione~, is a g=aup or
disttnqulshed scientists who are prepared to take an unpopula~
position - but one that is Justified by the£~ o.n scientific
work in the Field. It might cost $3-5 Hllllon a year, but
would Ue well worth it If the new voice gained mo~e time and
b~ought a tone of rational consideration to the debate.
Assuming that P=esldent Reagan is ~e-elected, the political
situation may be ¢lpe foe a conco=d between such a g~oup of .
Industry-funded, but independent scientists and HH$ authorities
e.g., Or. Ed B~andt.
The only purpose of this note ls to suggest an agenda item
looking toward plans and activities for the 1985-90 period.
E. Po
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